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...most black churchmen, as to Samuel Williams, the future is an open and agonizing question. Some, like Joseph Jackson, find their answers by retreating to solutions of the past. Others try different paths. Pastor Albert B. Cleage Jr. of Detroit's Shrine of the Black Madonna, who preaches that Jesus was literally black, has announced that he is founding a "Black Christian Nationalist Movement" that will have its first "national convention" in Detroit this week. Cleage, who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the National Council of Churches last December, also expects to attract black Jews,* sunni Muslims...
Nicholas of Verdun, one of the few to sign his pieces, molded a large ornate gilt box with a sloping roof, as a shrine to the Virgin. Decorated columns divide the space where figures in relief act out scenes from the Virgin's life. Dressed in heavy gold drapery, resting on a jeweled background, the figures seem half involved with the action and half aware of the spectator. None of the other works in the show possess this shocking brilliance, yet most deal with thinking human beings acting in religious scenes. The artists begin to explore the feelings...
...self-immolation off and on since 1966, vowed to go through with it this time unless Chandigarh was given unconditionally to the Punjab. He set Feb. 1 as the date. As if to underline the Sant's resolve, his attendants had collected kerosene and firewood at their holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar. To complicate matters, a Hindu named K. K. Toofan, fasting outside Indira's residence in New Delhi, threatened a suicide of his own if Chandigarh was not turned over outright to Haryana...
...Minh and his forces for nearly a decade may be intrigued to learn that the preservation of a legend is in progress in Hanoi. Soviet specialists are helping the North Vietnamese to embalm Ho's body so that, like Lenin's, it will become a glass-encased shrine for future generations-doubtless including, on some distant, peaceful day, American tourists...
...flames that gutted a wing of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque last August added an unwanted measure of heat and hatred to a conflict that is never far from flash point. Arab leaders, blaming Israeli negligence for the damage to Islam's third most sacred shrine, called for jihad-holy war. Prime Minister Golda Meir's Cabinet met in emergency session amid deep concern that the fire might weaken Israeli rule in the holy city. Last week the man who confessed to setting the mosque ablaze, a 28-year-old Christian named Denis Michael Rohan, was judged...